In 1968, the Social Science Research Council of the United States established the Committee on Afro-American Societies and Cultures which lasted until 1975 and which was initially chaired by the anthropologist Sidney W Mintz. In April, 1970, the committee held a conference on ‘Continuities and Discontinuities in Afro-American Societies and Culture’ at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. The conference occurred in the context of civil rights struggles and the prominence of the Black Power movement in the United States, the near-simultaneous rise of the Black Power movement in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and elsewhere in the Caribbean, and on the heels of protests by black and African scholars and students at the African Studies Association meetings in Montreal in 1969, and similar protests at other scholarly venues. A number of prominent white Caribbeanist anthropologists and other social scientists were invited to present papers at the Social Science Research Council conference. When black academics, such as the anthropologist St Clair Drake and the sociologist Joyce A Ladner, were invited, seemingly as an afterthought, they refused to participate, citing the lack of representation of scholars of colour on the committee and in the conference program. And at the conference itself, there were subtle conflicts and misunderstandings over styles of presentation and argumentation. This article develops a theoretical model appropriate for the history of science to illustrate anthropology’s contested identity politics of representation.

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“一个没有的会议”：非洲侨民研究和人类学身份认同政治中的一个插曲

1968 年，美国社会科学研究委员会成立了非裔美国人社会和文化委员会，该委员会一直持续到 1975 年，最初由人类学家西德尼·W·明茨 (Sidney W Mintz) 担任主席。1970 年 4 月，委员会在牙买加莫纳的西印度群岛大学举行了一次关于“非裔美国人社会和文化的连续性和不连续性”的会议。会议召开的背景是民权斗争和美国黑人权力运动的突出地位，牙买加、特立尼达和多巴哥以及加勒比地区其他地方的黑人权力运动几乎同时兴起，紧随其后1969 年在蒙特利尔举行的非洲研究协会会议上黑人和非洲学者和学生的抗议，以及其他学术场所的类似抗议。一些著名的加勒比白人人类学家和其他社会科学家应邀在社会科学研究委员会会议上发表论文。当黑人学者，如人类学家圣克莱尔德雷克和社会学家乔伊斯 A 拉德纳被邀请时，似乎是事后的想法，他们拒绝参加，理由是委员会和会议计划中缺乏有色人种学者的代表。而在会议本身，在演讲和辩论的风格上存在着微妙的冲突和误解。本文开发了一个适用于科学史的理论模型来说明人类学有争议的表征身份政治。